Customer Reviews

Programming with the PFC 7.0

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Excellent 'how to' PFC book. As a PFC beginner, this book was right up my alley. Easy to follow and understand. Highly recommended for any PFC newbie. Much better then to PFC documentation. The only downside is that you have to be carefull what PBL you use for each excersise. It would be nice if all the labs were in one PBL. All in all, a good job

In a version 7.0 of PFC, PowerBuilder created a lot of new function and events and this book did not explore that characteristics.

After already owning the "PowerBuilder 6.0 Programming with the PFC", I seem to have purchased this book again with a new title. No author should just copy paragraphs from a previous book and add new PB 7.0 screens to make a sell. Nothing new was added to this book that is of any value to the customer. If there was a way to stop the production and sell of this book, I sure would do it! As of now, I have sent this book back for a refund. The author should re-title this book "Powerbulder 7.0 Screen Prints - You fill in the Blanks". As P.T. Barnum says "There's a Fool born every day" Purchasing this book sure makes P.T right!

Very poor. This uses obsolete functions and syntax, some obsoleted in PowerBuilder 6, many more obsoleted in PB 7. You're worse off learning it wrong. The problem is that the obsolete syntax is still supported in PB 7 , so it seems to work, but you will be using the incorrect methods and eventually when you upgrade the code may fail to work. Better off just using the Help system. There are other (numerous) errors.

This book is a good book to start with PFC, but in version 7.0 there are a lot of new functions and events and the book did not explore this new characteristcs.

This book provides an excellent step-by-step approach to learning the PFC. The material gets right down to applying the services in a practical hands-on manner. This is the best book for learning PFC because it provides labs exercises for applying the techniques.

Great tutorial for PFC beginners. Do beware though that PBLs change depending on the chapter. After an e-mail to the publisher, this was clear. Who actually looks at directions anyway. OPPS!... Did I feel stupid.

I liked it. Having programmed in PowerBuilder for 5 years now, I never touched the PFC. This was a good start. The PFC help with PB is very poor. This manual did a good job of leading you through building PFC applications.

On the downside, this is not a good reference. If you have a year or so experience with the PFC, this book is pretty basic.

Please be advised that this book asks you to change PBL files every now and then, otherwise the labs will not work. I e-mailed the author who reminded me that the PBL files used for the labs are listed on the front page. Then all worked fine.

All in all, not a bad job.

This was the first book I found on PFC. It started along ok but the further I got into it the worst it got. The concepts about PFC were fine but using the exercises were a mess. There was an exercise that was telling the reader to change a datawindow but that window would't get used because the menu was calling some other window. It wasn't just mis-spellings but at times the instructions were just wrong. One exercise towards the end wouldn't work because the PBL wouldn't compile. You had to actually edit one of the object's source code to get it to work, which you shouldn't have to do. I am a PB newbie but this book was run through several coworkers, including an experienced PowerBuilder programmer and they all had troubles. It went a little easier for them since I wrote notes in the book about what was wrong. I also emailed the author about the mistakes and he said a free copy of the next version would be coming (that was Dec 2001 and now almost April 2002). When the next revision comes out I hope it's done better. I hope no one else has the frustration I had.

The Power Builder's PFC is good tool for Objet Oriented programmig